Please deposit your payment in Mallacoota Arts Council's account BSB 033227 Account No 100744.

Payment should be made at the same time as submitting this form.  Remember to include your surname in the description section of the transaction so that we can match your payment with your entry.

If you wish to pay by cheque or money order instead of by direct deposit, please download a postal entry form from www.artsmallacoota.org and enter the competition that way. 

1. Maximum length for EJ Brady Major Short Story entries is 2500 words . Very Short Stories must not exceed 700 words . The judges reserve the right to reject work exceeding the word length.
2. All entries must be fiction. There is no set theme and you may write in any genre in adult or young adult literature.
3. There is no geographical restriction on entry.  The EJ Brady Short Story Competition is open to everyone.
4. All entries should be in English.
5. The entrant's name and address must appear on the entry form but not on any of the pages of the manuscript(s).
6. Entries can be made online or by post. To enter online, please complete and submit the online entry form at www.artsmallacoota.org . To enter by post, please complete the entry by post form (available for downloading from www.artsmallacoota.org ) and return it to: EJ Brady Short Story Competition PO Box 201 Mallacoota Victoria 3892.
7. Postal entries must be submitted typed and double-spaced on A4 white paper in a .12 font.
8. Entry fees are $12 for each EJ Brady Major Short Story, $8 for each Very Short Story. Full payment MUST be submitted with your entry form by direct deposit to the MAC account. Postal entries may be paid by cheque or postal money order payable to Mallacoota Arts Council.
9. The closing date for entries is Friday 16th September 2011 .
10. All entries must be the original and previously unpublished works of the signatory.
11. Any works submitted must not have won prizes, contracts or cash in any other competition.
12. First prize for the Major Short Story category is $1500 with a runner-up prize of $200.
13. First prize for the Very Short Story category is $500.The Tom Donovan Encouragement Award of $100 will go to an excellent Very Short Story submitted by an East Gippsland or Bega Valley Shire resident.
14. The judges’ decision is final. No correspondence will be entered into.
15. Copyright will remain with the author but the Mallacoota Arts Council reserves the right to reproduce the prize-winning stories, and runners-up, at any point in the future, in hard copy, performance readings, adaptations and electronic media, with author acknowledgment.
16. Manuscripts will not be returned.